Secularism is a Women’s Issue

Bangladesh must firmly point out that no amount of strategic geopolitics can trample the importance of saving a population under genocide. Yes, there has been militancy and terrorism. But security issues should be left to be firmly handled by law enforcement agencies within the principles of due process and civic military doctrines. The general population cannot be targeted for the sins of a few.

The report will be presented to the GA on Wednesday October 25 from 10AM-1 PM at the UN in New York.
"Fundamentalist and extremist State and non-State actors often threaten the right to freedom of artistic expression. Artists have been accused of
“blasphemy” or “religious defamation”, insulting “religious feelings” or
inciting “religious hatred". "

A legitimisation of radical right-wing ideology is taking place around the world. The world was shocked by the events in Charlottesville, America, and by Donald Trump’s failure to condemn racist violence. But it may be even more surprising to some to learn that the radical right has achieved a mainstream foothold in Scandinavia and that right-wing parties and groups have been accepted as legitimate and part of the mainstream.

As the founding myth of the post-colonial nation-states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, partition is a way of seeing and being that separates what were once historically indivisible people, communities, and linguistic cultures into distinctive political entities. The unities invoked in the constructed national narrations of South Asian nation-states, however, cannot wish away the facts of history and geography.